#possess

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#bigger #dollar #man #minute #neither

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ecstasy #i #images #joy #just

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment. ↗

— Holly Black

#possessiveness #love

You’re just going to have your fiancé as your chaperone, and he isn’t allowed to touch. And you, Mrs. Gavarreen will remain untouchable, until the moment you say, I do. ↗

— Lindsay Delagair

#love #possessiveness #wedding #love

I don't like Paradise, As they probably don't have obsessions there. ↗

— Alda Merini

#heaven #materialism #paradise #possessions #afterlife

In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls. ↗

— Peter Prange

#possession #power #equality

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ↗

— John Randolph

#once #our #perishable #possessions #time

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement. ↗

— John Hope

#dissatisfaction #further #possession

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess. ↗

— Jim Talent

#alone #america #among #does #energy

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #discern #discover #fool #man